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JHENÉ AIKO ANNOUNCES NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINING ‘TRIP’ TOUR, IN SUPPORT OF HER CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, #1 R&B ALBUM ‘TRIP'

16-CITY TOUR OF THE U.S. AND CANADA OPENS NOV. 14th IN DETROIT

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“’Trip’ is carefully organized to showcase her ambition and range...Jhene Aiko is intent on erasing the distance between performer and audience.” - NPR’s “Fresh Air”

"An epic concept album…some of Aiko’s most honest writing….Aiko has completely opened herself up for this work, bravely mourning in public…she finds salvation in her own transparency.” - Pitchfork

“Her most personal effort to date...Jhené Aiko's introspective R&B helped usher in a new movement for the genre.” - Los Angeles Times

“Aiko’s grandest artistic statement yet.” – Entertainment Weekly

(Oct. 12, 2017 – New York, NY) Grammy®-nominated multi-platinum singer/songwriter Jhené Aiko, whose life-affirming new album TRIP via Def Jam Recordings soared to a #1 Billboard R&B Albums debut last week, now announces her first headlining tour of North America, opening November 14th at the Majestic Theatre in Detroit. Willow Smith and Kitty Cash will be joining the tour as support and St. Beauty and Kodie Shane will be performing on select dates. The 16-city trip across the U.S. and Canada, Jhené’s first major outing since she joined Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa on their High Road Summer Tour of 2016, will wrap up on December 27th at the Republik in Honolulu.

TRIP, a masterwork more than a decade in the making, take listeners through the unique odyssey of love and loss, heartbreak and discovery that Jhené has endured over the past decade, witnessed closely by her loyal fans. It is a tribute to the changes that have rocked her life and career these past years – the tragic loss of her brother to cancer in 2012, and her journey to try to manage her grief through relationships, substances and art. Guests include by Big Sean, John Mayer, Swae Lee, Kurupt, Chris Brown, and Brandy.

TRIP was introduced by a 23-minute short film which Jhené wrote and directed, with help from her friend, screenwriter Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip). Jhené has also issued a touching “mission statement,” that details the inspiration for, and intent of her massive project. “In sharing this,” she writes, “I hope to inspire others to share their own mistakes, imperfections and fears… I believe in doing so we can understand each other better and realize we are more alike than different. I hope to inspire others to share their grief and pain because I believe suffering can be alleviated when we understand we are not going through any of it alone.”

Containing 22 new songs and clocking in at over 90 minutes, TRIP was unanimously acclaimed upon its release. “TRIP is about more than chasing love or a temporary high,” NPR Music noted. “It's the confessional story of [Jhené’s] grappling with the nature of desire rooted in all human experience as she measures her mistakes and awakens to her own power. And she's a brave soul — equal parts vulnerable and visionary — for taking us along for the ride.” Newsweek praised the album as “a beautiful ode to dealing with grief and finally letting go of the past in order to move forward.” This past Sunday, in the Skin Deep column of its Fashion & Style section, the New York Times profiled Jhené‘s skin care regimen.

TRIP is the long-awaited follow-up to Jhené Aiko’s critically hailed debut albumSouled Out, which entered the R&B Albums chart at #1 upon its release in 2014, on Artclub/ARTium/Def Jam Recordings. “Jhené Aiko transforms heartbreak, tragedy and existential crises into a dreamy escape,” raved TIME magazine, with Pitchfork declaring, “[the album] surges with a lush, aquatic gravitas, distinctly R&B but never confined to genre conventions.” The LP’s first single and video, "The Pressure" has over 11.1 million YouTube views to date.

In the interim, Jhené collaborated with fellow multi-platinum Def Jam superstarBig Sean last year on their debut project together, TWENTY88. The ’70s-centric concept album delved into the highs and lows of the relationship between a famous fictional couple, with insights into conflict, memories, love, sex, and more. Production was featured from Key Wane, Detail and Tommy Brown. The TWENTY88 duo made their tv debut on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

About Jhené Aiko:Grammy®-nominated singer/songwriter Jhené Aiko was already more than a decade deep in the music game when she arrived at Def Jam in 2011; having been featured on singles, albums and mix tapes by A-listers Kendrick Lamar, Wale, Big Sean, Logic, J. Cole, Drake, and many more. Jhené made history when Sail Out, her phenomenal #1 debut EP of 2013, became the biggest-selling EP in Def Jam history. The EP’s success was propelled by her sizzling BET Award-winning and Grammy®-nominated #1 platinum crossover hit "The Worst" (over 108 million combined YouTube views to date). The momentum kept up when she joined Drake on his 39-city North American Would You Like A Tour? She appeared with him on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, which led to her own solo dates on TBS’s Conan, CBS’s The Late Show with David Letterman, and NBC Universal’s The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Jhené’s brilliant solo album of 2014, Souled Out entered the Soundscan R&B chart at #1, containing "The Pressure," described by Billboard as “an otherworldly neck-snapper” (over 11 million combined YouTube views to date). The release ofSouled Out was celebrated on NBC’s The Today Show. In 2016, Jhené collaborated with fellow multi-platinum Def Jam superstar Big Sean on their debut duo project, TWENTY88. Jhené’s critically acclaimed second album, TRIP, was released September 2017, to a Top 5 chart debut.

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